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tv   Countdown With Keith Olbermann  Current  March 21, 2012 5:00pm-6:00pm PDT

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>> the deet of trayvon martin has reached as far afield as new york city. the council city has passed a no confidence vote on its own police chief. george zimmerman's formerfian say had filed a petition against him for ladies and gentlemenly pushedladies andallegedly pushed her andhe had open hand smacked her in the mouth and the year over that, groped her over her objection. the demand for zimmerman who while on neighbor watch in a florida neighborhood shot martin. martin's parents were in in attendance there. his mother broke openly this morning. >> my heart hurts because this guy has not been arrested.
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>> the entirety of that guy, george zimmerman's call to 911 before he killed martin has been made public. just before the dispatcher warned zimmerman not to follow the young man something is mumbled by zimmerman. >> sanford city commission passing that no confidence vote, city manager after the 3-2 vote expected to decide whether police chief lee will be fired or asked to resign. unclear when either of those options will happen. but to add to the pain of this case, an article has since been scrubbed. glenn beck's website identified trayvon martin as the aggressor and assumes that reports from the young man being suspended from school for ten days for
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armed robbery, arson, hate crime, kidnapping, possession of explosives and sexual battery. back to reality. i'm honored to be joined by president and ceo of naacp benjamin jealous. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, keith. >> you've been calling for the resignation of this police chief based on his handling of this case and other cases that preceded it. what does this vote mean in terms that have? >> what it means is that the council is listening to the people of the community. the city commission has heard the city saying loud and clear too many of us have lost faith in this chief, and he has just got to go. with that said, we're saying there has got to be a top to bottom, bottom to top investigation of the actions of this deputy in--in this department in this case and many other cases.
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>> what are the preceding cases and what is the theme you've seen in them? >> 2005, two men security guards with connections to this police department, one a weekend volunteer police officer, the other one, family member is on the force, killed an unarmed black man and get away with murder. then in 2010, caught on videotape, a lieutenant on this force jumps a black homeless man man, beats him up, and serves no jail time. now this neighborhood watch captain, who had spoken to the police, called the police 46 times in 56 days, has walked the streets for weeks and has been allowing to free for weeks even though he stalked, assaulted and murdered a black man in cold blood. there is a theme that is emerging here, a black man's life in this town has less value than it should, and that people who have a connection to this
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police department be it social or formal, have been given wide attitude to absurdly interpret a law when you read this law. when somebody stalks you attacks you, you have the right to use equal opposite force. the only person in this case with that experience is trayvon martin. >> is there a legitimate reason that george zimmerman has yet to be arrested or dialing it back a notch, at least having his concealed gun permit taken away, which also has not happened. >> no, and there's no reason why the evidence at the scene wasn't gathered, why they didn't check his hands for powder residue or confiscate the clothes he was wearing for dna evidence why they didn't check trayvon's corpse for drug or alcohol content.
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a man who shoots a boy in cold blood is put in jail. as somebody said in jail in this pack to the rafters town hall, many said in sanford if you kill a dog you end up in jail the next day. trayvon martin was killed. a beautiful boy was killed, and his killer has been allowed to walk the streets for weeks. >> we know the fbi and the defendant. justice, in your assessment combine with this vote on this no confidence vote on the police chief, is all this enough and is it fast enough? >> right now action has to be taken to get rid of this chief. in reality we're looking at weeks and maybe months for both investigations to come to a close. this grand jury is set for 20 days. we've seen similar investigations by the d.o.j. take months. and the people of sanford deserve to know, and their
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leaders are taking action to be sure they can go to sleep at night and wake up the next day that amen of their children, regardless of their color, will be respected and protected by the cops in this town. and not saying that mr. zimmerman is a racist or not a racist, but what we are saying too many men of color have just been treated unfairly. when they have been killed it has not been taken as seriously as it should. >> you can reduce it from that if you got a guy running around with a gun claiming to be on the neighborhood watch shooting citizens in his town to be found completely innocent, there is an elemental level which it doesn't matter color, race it doesn't matter gender, it's a fundamental issue. you don't want people pretending to be cops and shooting unarmed citizens. >> that's right. this case exists in a racial
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context but the case, it rises far above specific racial concerns. it's hard to look attaboy as beautiful, as poised and athletic as sort of just a shining clearly well loved as trayvon martin, i don't care what color you are it's hard as a parent and as a human being to imagine sitting still while somebody was allowed to hunt your child and kill them simply because they adopted the title neighborhood watch captain. >> naacp president benjamin jealous thank you for your time. >> thank you keith. >> add etch-a-sketch to the canon of gas. this was the most dramatic day of a football year. a coach suspended for a season.
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>> from the craziest state in the union. making women watch an abortion. before they can legally have one. in michigan, and today's youth of america. attempting to break the record for most full chair reclines in 30 seconds. set the timer right there on the screen in case you want to keep this professional. certainly people sit in an easy chair so they don't have to do sit-ups. i think the real championship champion
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is the chair. traveling to columbia for the president obama look-alike competition. escorted by what i presume is a secret service look-alike competition. the judges decide who is the most convincing commander in chief. this year's price going to carlos alberto perez in a related story donald trump has just added, he was not born in columbia. finally the win with a glass of wine. nothing likely at the end of the day like a glass of bordeaux. but who wants to go to the hassle of pouring your glass. now with this handy contraption. turn the crank for several minutes and before you know it you're enjoying a glass of wine. and it comes with the added bonus of making your home look like a medieval torture chamber.
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speaking of medieval torture claimers, there is the state of arizona making women watch abortions before they can legally have one. next.
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>> the statement is direct and kurt. quote, i would like to make a law mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed before undergoing one. that was written by a woman state representative and it's the latest shot on the war on women. the most disturbing twist it was written by a woman.
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terri proud to express per opposition to the so-called fetal pain bill. personally i would like to make a law that main dates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a surgical procedure. if it's not a life, it doesn't matter. if it doesn't matter she shouldn't care. and unless she says she doesn't feel any pain, i will be voting yes. also states debby lesko's bill that insists anyone getting birth control prove that they're not using to keep from
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pregnancy. >> it suggests that it should turn into a spectator sport was disgusting to me. that's been the reaction from all the democratic colleagues in the legislature as well as the vast majority of constituents that i've talked to, democrats republicans and independents. >> are there implications about the e-mail itself and the fact that it was sent from a state
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account? is there anything that is amplified by where she wrote it from. >> lack of taste and public decorum is problematic. but it's an extreme e-mail written by an extreme agenda. so there is not much we can do in use of the legislative female who writes that type of message from the the constituent. but the constituent herself and other constituents can make the choice and that's where we need to turn around and take arizona back to where it was a few years ago. >> the idea of the suggestion being made, it's seems as if forgive me for tarring the state with one brush, with you, but it seems to be okay in arizona for conservative that is a woman must witness an abortion before having one. but it seems extraordinary to
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propose this. >> i agree with you completely. let there be no doubt that in arizona in particular, it's full of hypocrisy. we could talk about a whole litany of bills that are hypocritehypocritical that are impacting people's lives on a daily basis in immensely negative ways. >> i asked this question two years ago, and it has been free prefaced, but what is happening in state government in arizona. it's as though they're meeting out in the sun every day and they're going crazier faster than others were. >> not all of us are meeting out in the sun every day. i want to make sure that that's clear.
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not to make light of it, but i was watching the segment about the guy in the recliner chair he's more productive than the g.o.p.-led legislature in arrested. the problem with the state we've been taken over by extremist. and the party promoting small government has taken government in an overreach to a whole new level. they're invading people's bedrooms. they're invading the relationship between a doctor and a patient. and it's unfortunate. but i really truly believe that people are going to start pushing back. just the conversations i've had over the last 24 hours i think people are starting to wake up from what is going on in this state. >> i don't why this has dawned on me, if you can force people to watch an abortion, you're forcing some woman to have an abortion while they watched. maybe that's more nefarious.
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>> that's a great point. >> good luck in trying to stem this tide, the arizona state representative and house minority leader chad campbell. thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> the etch-a-sketch and late breaking news that tim tebow has his choice of new teams. pray for or against. coming up. capital one is issuing a venture double miles challenge.
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>> according to. >> and he likes to fire people and his wife drives a couple of cadillacs. and the presidential campaign is like an etch-a-sketch. and tim tebow traded or not traded.
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>> roger goodell punished that the new orleans defense employed a program where members were to your members of the opposing team the organized fined $500 million. but the harsh punishment, williams, who was deemed to be the mastermind of the program was suspended indefinitely without pay with his case to be reviewed to see if he'll be
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reinstated then. then there was the trade of when payton manning signed with the denver broncos. tim tebow brought denver into the playoffs last year but he was traded to the new york jets only then apparently did the jets realize that the broncos had paid a tebow salary advance and the broncos wanted the jets to pay them that amount. the thing is in limbo to achieve a trade. and with that confusing information behind us, let's bring in tim burke. thank you for your time. >> hi, keith. >> what the hell is going on.
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>> this is unbelievable, keith. and like our colleague put it earlier today. the new york jets are not a football franchise. they're reality show. it seems that this reality show aspect has thumbed its way through to denver in messing up the details of this trade and then opening it back up for him to go back to his hometown of jacksonville. >> so it was tweeted in the last half hour, two contradictory thing. he's picked, and then denver will do the trade that is best for them. >> well, it's a little weird being here in jacksonville because you know, tim tebow is
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almost the most polarizing player in the nfl. that filters down to the team support in which you have this wide gap of and a lot of people who think they have best interest of the team. so they were unbelievably excited and now tragically fallen hearing that the jets deal has gone through. now the real question is tim tebow--if he's allowed to choose, and if we know that's the case--if he chooses jacksonville, that will really bolster the case of the people who want him to be here. if for some reason he chooses the jets he suddenly turned his back on his hometown and we have all this drama built in, which is a completely contrary to the standard nfl narrative. >> i'll interrupt you by saying he'll turn his back on his own town because it's tweeted denver
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has greed to trade tim tebow to the jets for the fourth round pick and sixth round pick and doesn't say anything about the cash payment to make up for the $5 million given in advance. having thoroughly confused everybody about this, the imperative of these stories. i'm confused, and it's been two years since i did the pre-game show for the nbc so maybe the nfl has changed but back in my day was not the purpose of every play to have two guys hit each other? were the saints ever accused of being especially dirty players? what are they being punished technically for? >> well, in what seems like a really simple but harsh punishment for this offensive bounty system i think it's more complicated with more nuance especially since the nfl is in a really bad place with its veterans and despite all the hugs and happiness that came
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when the lockout ended the nfl is still not on the best of terms with the players union. the nfl is doing it's best to reform its image and show we really care about player safety. the best way to do that is drop the biggest punishment down for an instance of the bounty system that became public and to really lay it out on the coach, the public face of the franchise and that's sean payton. >> what's the difference between bounties, even if you get past the idea that they're not allowable, what is the difference between bounties for injuring players and giving the nfl sack leader with as much on their backs as possible. >> this again is dealing with the lawsuits that have come from the former players and the nfl doing it's best to come out here to say, we will not stand for any of this.
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even though it happens. the specific case that greg williams as member of the management was organizing the system, i think that roger goodell in his efforts to be the sergeant at arms in his efforts in the nfl to let everybody know that this activity is not going to be tolerateed.
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>> in our number one story. tonight we have the etch-a-sketch to the inspiring gaffing of by mitt romney and his campaign staff. >> i tell you what $10,000 bet? >> i like being able to fire people. >> have a mustang and a chevy
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pickup truck. ann drives a couple of cadillacs, actually. >> we can add the segment with seamus on the roof. an adviser to romney decided to compare the campaign to a children's toy. >> i think he hit a reset problem for the fall campaign. it's almost like an etch-a-sketch. you can shake it up and we start all over again. >> with an etch-a-sketch like that, romney's opponents pounced pounced. >> imagine, at a time we're addressing our constitution. just shake it and rewrite it. >> now this is a spare etch-a-sketch, so i'm going to give it to you guys to play
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with, all right? do you want it? she's ready. [applause] she could now be president. >> nolet bring in michael musto. thank you for coming michael. >> hi, keith. >> is the etch-a-sketch the best toy to compare the romney campaign? >> no, a yo-yo, but least aio quoayo-yo comes back up, but it comes back up. >> romney is a conservative like everybody else. i think it would have been awkward for the campaign adviser to say, we think of this campaign as a giant dildo so he
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went to the etch-a-sketch motif. i thought it was delightful. >> i think he missed two or three references to adult toys and i'm grateful. now what children's toy, and let me emphasize children's toy would best describe the campaign of rick santorum? >> i would say a chatty kathy doll mixed with a bratt and an anointing spinning top. all those toys you hated. all the children you give to children less fortunate to yourself in a very patronizing way. >> and compared to children's toys, what is newt gringrich's campaign. >> a mr. potato head. you can just eat it or turn it into vodka. >> do we think that the comment about etch-a-sketch will have more life to it than seamus the
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dog story, letterman has been doing a yoke a night, 35% of the people polled said it would make memory less likely to vote for romney. we like our--we love our dogs in this country. do we immortalize our etch-a-sketches or is it the other way around. >> i tried to draw an etch-a-sketch picture of an expensive car and i couldn't do it. that was a homage to the national lampoon vacation when they strapped grandma to the car. but mitt is going to be more known as the etch-a-sketch candidate and his slogans willing do you want to come up and apply with my etch-a-sketch etch-a-sketches or do you want to play where my two knobs. >> romney will have to go back to work getting into the white house. once you get there, at least you get to play twister with the
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